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BUTTON.

Patented Nov. 9, 1886.

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EREDERIo s. BECK, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 'AND JOHN J. HOLLAND, OF NEW RRU swIoK, NEW JERsEY.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,291, dated November 9, 1886.

Application filed September 11. 1886. Serial No. 213,283. (No model.)

To all whom. it 7120/1] concern:

the shank is held in the button.

Be it known that we, FREDERIO S. BEOK and JOHN J. HOLLAND, citizens of the United States, residing, respectively, at Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, and New Brunswick, Middlesex county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

The present invention relates to that general class of buttons that are provided with flexible shanks or tufts by which they are secured to the garment. The invention relates particularly, however, to a button of this class having a body made of hard rubber or similar substance.

As a full understanding of the invention can best be given by a detailed description of the various parts by which the button is formed and Ofthe manner in which these parts are assembled in the operation of making the button, all preliminary description will be omitted and such full description given, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan, and Fig. 2 a sectional, View of the flexible shank of the button after it has been provided withits metal binding and is ready to be inserted in the back of the button. Fig. 3 is a plan, and Fig. 4c a sectional, view of the cup-shaped disk by which Figs. 5 and 6 are a plan and an edge view of the metal disk which is inserted within the flange of the cup-shaped disk shown in Figs. 3 and 4, to hold the same in position during the operation of pressing the button-body around it. Fig. 7 is a plan, and Fig. 8 a sectional, View of the parts shown in Figs. 1 to 6 after they have been assembled and are ready to be secured in the button-body. Fig. 9 is a view of the back, and Fig. 10 a sectional view of the button-body when it is ready to receive the parts shown in Figs. 7 and 8. Fig. 11 is' a view of the back, and Fig. 12 a sectional view of the button after the shank and the parts connected therewith have been introduced into the recess' in the back of the body and materials commonly employed for such purpose. The edge of the material forming the shank is provided with a bindingpiece, b, of thin sheet metal. This binding-piece is of annular form, and is crimped around the edge of the canvas formingthe shank, so as to grasp and holdit firmly, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. The shank, after being thus formed, is inserted through the opening 00f the cup-shaped disk d, (see Figs. 3, a, and 7,) after which a flat disk, f, (see Figs. 5 and 6,) of stiff metal is inserted within the flange e of the disk d, as shown in Fig. 8. The button-bodyg, composed of rubber or anyother similar material,is molded to approximately the required form, and is provided at its back with a recess, h, (see Figs. 9 and 10,) of sufficientdiameter-and depth to receive the cup-shaped disk d. After the button-body has been thus formed the cupshaped disk (1, carrying the shank a and the disk f, is inserted into the recess h in the back of the button, as indicated in Figs. 11

and 12. The button is then placed in a suitable mold, and after being heated sufficiently to soften the material of which the body is composed is subjected .to sufficient pressure to cause the material at the sides of the recess h to be forced inward against the inclined flange e of the disk (I, as indicated in Figs. 13 and 14. By this means the shank a becomes firmly fastened in the back of the button, and during this operation also the binding-piece b will become still more firmly crimped onto the edge of the fabric of the shank, so as to hold it firmly. During thisoperation thedisk f, which, as before stated, is made of stiff metal, prevents the material of which the central portion of the body 9 is composed from being forced inward into the shank, and thus causes all parts of the face of the button to be subjected to equal pressure. By this means .any suitable'design or ornamentation can be impressed onto the face of the body If it were not for the disk f, the material of the central portion of the body g would, when the body was subjected to pressure, be forced i11- ward into the shank, and thus the central portion of the face of the button would not be pressed against the mold sufficiently to take the design or ornamentation. The disk f'also serves to maintain the flange e of the disk (I at the proper outward inclination, so as to cause it to be held firmly in the back of the button when the material of the body is pressed inward so as to overlie its inclined side, as shown in Fig. 14.

In forming the buttons in the manner described it sometimes happens, owing to the pressure to which they are subjected, that they stick in the molds, so that some difficulty is experienced in removing them therefrom. To obviate this the disks (1 f and the bindingpiece I) may be provided with small perforations 1', through which a small pin, it, can be inserted after the parts are assembled, as shown inFigs. 7 and 8, and before they are placed in the recess h. The pin 70 thus serves to hold the parts I) d f together, and also affords a convenient handle by which the button can be lifted out of the mold after it has been pressed. After the button has been rem0vedfrom the mold the pin can be clipped off close to the back of the button.

What is claimed is v 1. The herein-described button, consisting of the body 9, composed of rubber or similar material, the disk d, having the inclined flange e embeded in the back of the body, the disk f, inserted within the flange e, and the shank at, having the metal binding b interposed between the disks d f, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the button-body, the disks df, and the shank a, of the pin it, passing through openings in the disks and projecting out at the back of the button, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERIG S. BECK. JOHN J. HOLLAND.

Witnesses:

J. A. HOVEY, JAS. J. KENNEDY. 

